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The Myth of the Framework: In Defence of Science and Rationality
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This read more like David Deutsch's books than any other Popper book I've read.
"When speaking here of human knowledge, I shall usually have this objective sense of the word ‘knowledge� in mind."
"The tentative acceptance of a theory or a conjecture means hardly more than that it is considered worthy of further criticism."
"For to understand a problem means to understand why it is not easily soluble � why the more obvious solutions do not work."
"Observations or experiments can be accepted as supporting a theory (or a hypothesis, or a scientific assertion) only if these observations or experiments are severe tests of the theory � or, in other words, only if they result from serious attempts to refute the theory, and especially from trying to find faults where these might be expected in the light of all our knowledge, including our knowledge of competing theories."
It's comforting to know even Deutsch "stood on the shoulders of giants".
"When speaking here of human knowledge, I shall usually have this objective sense of the word ‘knowledge� in mind."
"The tentative acceptance of a theory or a conjecture means hardly more than that it is considered worthy of further criticism."
"For to understand a problem means to understand why it is not easily soluble � why the more obvious solutions do not work."
"Observations or experiments can be accepted as supporting a theory (or a hypothesis, or a scientific assertion) only if these observations or experiments are severe tests of the theory � or, in other words, only if they result from serious attempts to refute the theory, and especially from trying to find faults where these might be expected in the light of all our knowledge, including our knowledge of competing theories."
It's comforting to know even Deutsch "stood on the shoulders of giants".
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